Pvt. Barton Dyson Smith

Barton Dyson Smith BIRTH 1821 Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA DEATH Dec 1882 (aged 60–61) Carroll County, Georgia, USA BURIAL Friendship Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery Paulding County, Georgia, USA MEMORIAL ID 36549431 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 2 FLOWERS 5 Barton Dyson Smith's tombstone in the Friendship Primitive Baptist Cemetery gives his birthdate as 1816. This is obviously an error since the marriage of his parents in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina is well documented. Census records indicate that he was born in 1821. Elizabeth Hogan Smith is buried in Shady Grove Cemetery in Carroll County, Georgia along with several of her children. Bad weather and bad roads are cited as the reason for her burial there instead of beside her husband. She is the daughter of James Hogan. Barton Dyson and Elizabeth Hogan Smith lived for many years in Coweta County, Georgia near Cedar Creek Primitive Baptist Church and accumulated some 1250 acres of land. In the late 1870s they disposed of their property and moved to Douglas County, Georgia, near the Paulding County line, where Barton Dyson operated a mill. The story goes that he died suddenly in 1882 while in Villa Rica, Carroll County, Georgia.

There is a story that Elizabeth Hogan Smith remarked in her later years that she nursed seventeen children and a mule colt. The colt story is confirmed in all branches of the family. However, only fourteen children were found by diligent search of records. The other three are assumed to have died as infants or as very young children and to have missed the census records. Civil War records list Barton Dyson Smith as serving as a private in Co K 30th Regiment, Chattahoochee Volunteers, Georgia Infantry, from Campbell County, Georgia, from Aug 19 1861 to Aug 21 1862, discharged by Civil Authority at Camp Hardee, Savannah, Georgia. Records also reveal he served with the Coweta Battalion, Georgia Militia, while serving as a Justice of the Peace.

Family Members Parents Photo Basel Smith 1799–1851

Photo Catherine Byram Smith 1802–1836

Spouse Photo Elizabeth T Hogan Smith 1823–1889

Siblings Photo William Turner Smith 1825–1898

Photo James Henry William Smith 1827–1893

Jeremiah Perry Smith 1830–1897

Half Siblings Photo Basil Andrew Jackson Smith 1843–1922

Photo Susie Smith Thomas 1849–1936

Photo Malinda Smith Mullins 1850–1887

Children Photo William Andrew Jackson Smith 1843–1862

Photo Mary A V Smith Fuller 1845–1918

Photo Sarah Jane Smith Avery 1847–1914

Photo George Washington Smith 1848–1922

Photo Henry W Smith 1851–1917

Frances A Smith Walbert Brown 1853–1895

Photo Margaret A Smith Horton 1853–1906

Edna A Smith Whitehead 1855 – unknown

Photo John B Smith 1856–1923

Photo Saphronia C Smith Hendrix 1858–1896

Photo Lucious Gartell Smith 1858–1927

Photo Elizabeth Smith Waldon 1861–1922

Photo Joseph H Smith 1864–1926

Photo Arthur Jackson Smith 1867–1909

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